Slowly Walking These Days

Erin McKenna
2 min readJun 14, 2022

Seeing the beauty in a slower pace

Recently I’ve been forced to slow down my walking pace.

No, not because it’s almost summer in the Northeast, and you can cut the humidity with a knife.

No, not because construction has forced funnels of people on sidewalks where no funnels existed before.

The reason is that I have strained my hamstring for the first time in my 35-plus years of existence.

It turns out the word “hamstrung,” which I always heard in the context of “a lack of _______…

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Erin McKenna

Writer hoping to spread joy and laughter. Loves dogs, pasta, Nova basketball, volunteering and learning about different cultures.